John Robinson Says He's Buying $200,000.00 A Week In Gold

"Years ago we would buy maybe $2,000-$3,000 of gold a week. Now, we buy about $200,000 of gold a week," Robinson said. 

Well, at those kind of prices one would have to believe he has armed guards everywhere and security trucks on call daily.

This should be fun to watch, comment wise.

WE NEED TO FIGHT FOR THE SCHOOLS TO POST AN AFTER SCHOOL EMERGENCY NUMBER ON THEIR WEBSITE!!!

My son is involved w/ the SADD group after school on Wed's and is always home off the bus by 5:00. He wasn't home by 5:10, I started to worry. 5:20 i started to panic. 5:30, i had all the neighbors here. By 5:45, I had the cops here. I had called his school, the principal at home, vice principal at home, the superintendent of schools, all the neighbors, bus drivers, 911... NO ONE ANSWERED EXCEPT 911 (and eventually the principal). By 6:00... I was in hysterics, and the police were prepping for an amber alert and all-out manhunt. At around 6:15, the bus pulls up. They changed his bus route and didn't tell me. OVER AN HOUR LATE... AND DIDN'T CONTACT ME!! ... all that could have been avoided had they just called me or I had a way to notify them.

STATE POLICE INVESTIGATE BOMB THREAT AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

(Berlin, MD) Maryland State Police continue an investigation into an early morning bomb threat that led to the evacuation of an elementary school in Worcester County.

At approximately 8:40 a.m. this morning, state police at the Berlin Barrack were notified of a possible threat to the Showell Elementary School in Berlin. Troopers immediately notified the school. Subsequently, the school made the precautionary decision to immediately evacuate school personnel and approximately 550 students from pre-kindergarten through third grade.

Detectives from the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation along with troopers from the Maryland State Police and deputies from the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office responded to the elementary school. A thorough search and K-9 scan of the interior and exterior of the school was conducted.

The search of the school and the surrounding area did not reveal any evidence of a threat to the school. Students and personnel were permitted to return to class at approximately 11:00 a.m.

The investigation continues…

Somerset County Sheriff's Office Press Release

Sara Lee Margaret of Princess Anne, arrested 3-31-11 on a warrant regarding second degree assault. Lee was later released on personal recognizance.

 

James Franklin Leatherbury Jr. of Princess Anne, arrested 3-31-11 on two warrants regarding failure to appear in court. Leatherbury was later held on a $1,000 bond.

 

Antwane Dominique Holland of Hyattsville, arrested 3-31-11 on a warrant regarding violation of probation. Holland was later held on a $ 5,000 bond.

 

David Lee Anderson Jr. of Crisfield, arrested 3-31-11 on a warrant regarding violation of probation. Anderson was later held on a $ 10,000 bond.

 

Mark Wesley Pruitt of Crisfield, arrested 4-1-11 on two warrants regarding violation of probation. Pruitt was later held on a $ 150,000 bond.

 

Stephanie Michelle Lear of Hebron, arrested 4-1-11 regarding driving on a suspended drivers license, and driving without license. The arrest was the result of a traffic stop conducted by deputies on Deal Island Rd. Lear was released on citations pending District Court action.

 

Pamela Sue Fischer of Princess Anne, arrested 4-1-11 on a warrant regarding violation of probation. Fischer was later released after posting $ 5,000 bond.

 

William Frederick Martin Jr. of Eden, arrested 4-1-11 on a warrant regarding failing to appear in court. Martin was later held on a $ 5,000 bond.

 

Harold Timothy Howard 3rd. of Crisfield, arrested 4-1-11 on a warrant regarding failing to pay  court fees.. Howard was later held on a $ 1,057.50 bond.

 

Theodore Roosevelt Turner Sr. of Westover, arrested 4-4-11 on a warrant regarding violation of probation. Turner was later held on a $ 10,000 bond.

 

Susan Marie Boyd of Eden, arrested 4-4-11 on a warrant regarding failing to appear in court. Boyd was later released on personal recognizance.

 

Kevin Rashaan Horsey of Eden, arrested 4-4-11 on a fail to appear warrant regarding driving on a revoked drivers license, fraudulent identity, failing to display license, and failure to stop at a stop sign. Horsey was later held on a $ 5,000 bond.

 

Alexander Darryl DeJarnette of Marion Station, arrested 4-4-11 on a warrant regarding violation of probation. DeJarnette was later released on personal recognizance.

 

David Jerome Noble of Crisfield, arrested 4-5-11 on a warrant regarding failure to appear in court. Noble was later released after posting $ 500.00 bond.

 

Tashena Lavon Burton of Princess Anne, arrested 4-7-11 regarding driving on a suspended drivers license, and rental agreement violation. Burton was released on citations pending District Court actions.

Two George Soros Events Aim To Remake The Financial Order And The Media

Apparently, megalomaniacs need schedulers.

Just ask George Soros. The left-wing billionaire is helping fund two major conferences that start on the same day, in two different locations just a three hours apart by car. Two liberal events packed into one long weekend.
God created the world in six days. Apparently, Soros, who sees himself as “some kind of god,”needs just a long weekend to start remaking today's world in his image.

The emphasis of both conferences is a familiar one to American voters – change. Soros wants to begin changing the global economy in one event. In the other, his flunkies want to “Change the world. Change the media.”
Now that is change you can believe in. Sadly, those who actually report the news must believe in it because they sure as heck aren’t reporting on Soros or either event. And that’s even though staffers or even executives from Reuters, the Financial Times, NPR, PBS, The Washington Post and other major media outlets are speaking at one event or the other.
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n Bretton Woods, N.H., is an economic conference Soros once described as “a grand bargain that rearranges the entire financial order.” In October 2009, Soros committed $50 million to the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET). A week later, the glib lefty investor wrote a column calling for a new Bretton Woods event, to recreate the one that helped design the post-WWII economy. Only he wants this one to knock America down a peg or three.

Now, it's been a little over a year later and the group he funded is making King George’s wish come true – bringing together a whole slew of important people to discuss how to change the global economy. In Soros speak, that means “establish new international rules” and “reform the currency system.”

The announced speakers include a lot of prominent lefties, globalists and economists on the board of the organization he has throwing the event – more than two-thirds of the overall total have ties to Soros. To underscore their connection to history, INET is hosting the conference at the Mount Washington Resort, the very same hotel that held the first gathering.

INET Executive Robert Johnson defended his event in a March 31 interview with Lou Dobbs. Johnson, a former managing director at Soros Fund Management, who is on the Board of Directors for the Soros-funded Economic Policy Institute, avoided saying “Soros” despite Dobbs mentioning Johnson’s boss several times. In his last response, he tried to rationalize the Soros connection, by saying “I have a group of funders including George Soros.” With $50 million, Soros alone makes a pretty big group. Of course, Soros will also be speaking in Bretton Woods about “The Emerging Economic and Political Order.”

Just down the road in Boston, a Soros-funded media conference is trying to manipulate that emerging order as well. Close to 350 left-wingers from a variety of organizations are gathering there for the National Conference for Media Reform.

That “change the world” conference includes two commissioners from the FCC, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Bernie Sanders, four Democratic representatives, the head of Columbia University, and assorted left-wing journalist types, from Salon’s Glenn Greenwald to disgraced former MSNBC host David Shuster, who now works for a Soros-funded investigative operation.

The rest of the list reads like a "Who’s Who" of left-wing organizations and talking heads, including the president of PBS, a senior vice president with American Public Media, an Al Jazeera English executive, the president of the Newspaper Guild – CWA and Washington Post columnist Rob Pegoraro.

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Childish Attacks On Paul Ryan's Budget Get House Nowhere

House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R. Wis.) is treating Americans like grownups.  That’s all too rare.

Washington’s big spenders have responded with their usual tired clichés.

"Pulling the rug out from under seniors,” says Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D.-Mich.).

“Waging war on American workers,” says Rep. Xavier Becerra (D.-Calif.).

“A path to poverty for America’s seniors and children,” claims House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.).

"The Tea Party has hijacked the Republican caucus," says House Budget Committee Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen (D.-Md.)

Pee Wee Herman could have delivered more creative comebacks.  But treating the electorate like adults is uncommon in Washington, D.C.  Ryan’s plan should be rated at least R for Realism, while the dismissive comments are PG for Politically Guided.

Ryan’s plan is a big deal.  A very big deal.  Its proposed $6.2 trillion of savings over 10 years (measured against Obama’s budget) is literally 100 times larger than the $61 billion that the GOP hopes to cut this year—and is struggling against ferocious Democrat resistance.

Revising Medicare to a defined contribution plan is a good course to pursue, and of course a tough sell.  But that change makes a huge difference in controlling spending and reducing deficits.  The same with Ryan’s goal of giving states full flexibility over Medicaid, in exchange for limiting federal costs.

As noted by The Heritage Foundation’s annual Index of Dependency, people’s unhealthy dependence on government is skyrocketing.  Ryan would address that and more.

Spending limitations, rollbacks, and freezes.  Repeal of ObamaCare.  Cutting corporate welfare (including farm subsidies) as well as overly generous giveaways to individuals.  Structural reform for federal health care programs, which are the biggest runaway spending items.  Ryan’s plan gets serious in a way nobody else has.

But his “Path to Prosperity” is about economic growth, not just spending.  Tax simplification is one aspect, and so is lowering corporate taxes so businesses are not pushed overseas by what is now the world’s highest rate.  A Heritage Foundation analysis finds this would create a million jobs a year for starters, and double that rate in short order.

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Time For Obama And Hill Democrats To Grow Up

With his 2012 spending blueprint, House Budget chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has introduced the only comprehensive federal budget proposal that seriously addresses the nation's dire fiscal challenges, or to put it in terms President Obama seems to prefer, that deserves a place in an adult conversation about those challenges.

Ryan's "roadmap to prosperity" certainly is far more serious than the budget proposal Obama submitted to Congress earlier this year. The Obama plan not only nearly doubled the national debt by 2020, it totally ignored the recommendations of the president's own bipartisan fiscal commission and included nothing about reforming the entitlement programs that are the principal drivers behind our soaring national debt.

Ryan's plan cuts total spending during the coming decade by $6 trillion relative to Obama's proposal. That reductions of this magnitude are being considered shows the gravity of our debt problem. But even Ryan's plan fails to balance the budget by the end of the decade.

If America's fiscal condition is so dire that $6 trillion in spending reductions are not enough to remedy it by 2020, why are Obama and congressional Democrats now threatening to shut down the government in an effort to preserve a paltry $30 billion in unnecessary or otherwise questionable outlays in fiscal 2011?

If the federal government does shut down this weekend, voters should keep in mind how we got to this point in the first place. When the Democrats had large majorities in the Senate and House in the 111th Congress, as well as their own man in the White House, they were obsessed with forcing passage of left-wing ideological milestones like the economic stimulus program, Obamacare, and cap and trade.

As a result, they became the first Congress to fail to approve an annual budget since passage in 1974 of the Budget and Impoundment Control Act.

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Study: Many Illegal Immigrant Families Are On Welfare

More than half of the illegal immigrant families in many states are on welfare — as many as 62 percent in Arizona — and they’re getting the taxpayer-funded benefits through their American-born children, Judicial Watch reports.

What’s more, families headed by immigrants, both legal and illegal, use welfare programs at a consistently higher rate than native-born Americans, the conservative foundation contends.

Judicial Watch cited an analysis that the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies did of U.S. Census Bureau data. The study, which looked at eight publicly funded assistance programs, said the states where immigrant households with children have the highest welfare-use rates following Arizona’s 62 percent are Texas, California, and New York, at 61 percent each, and Pennsylvania, at 59 percent.

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Wisconsin City Caught Destroying Ballots

As if the situation in Wisconsin wasn't tense enough, it appears that one county in particular is going to a new extreme.

This comes after word that there may have been voter fraud in the nonpartisan State Supreme Court election Tuesday between incumbent David Prosser and JoAnne Kloppenburg.

For some reason one of the counties in the state is destroying ballots that 'were not counted' Tuesday.

There is now a call for an injunction to preserve the 'discarded' ballots.

This also comes as over 10,000 more ballots were cast for the Supreme Court race in Dane (Madison) than for the County Executive race there.


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Wicomico Budget Hearing TONIGHT

Wicomico Budget Hearing tonight

7:00 pm

Civic Center

 

Please tell your family and friends about the meeting.

Please plan to attend.

If we loose parks we loose tourism dollars.

If we loose tourism dollars we loose hotel, resturant, gas station,

retail stores, etc., dollars.

We generate over $9,000,000.00.

We are just 1% of the budget. It only costs each resident of

Wicomico County a little over $11.00 to have and maintain our

parks and recreation facilities. That's the lowest in the state of Maryland.

We need your support.

Salisbury City Council Absentee Number's

Here is a list of the current numbers from the absentee ballots that have been counted so far...

Muir Boda -41 votes

Terry Cohen-74 votes

Bruce Ford-41 votes

Laura Mitchell-45 votes

Tim Spies-73 votes

Orville Dryden-43 votes

We have the final numbers as soon as they become available.

Showell Elementary School Evacuated Due To A Bomb Threat

Showell Elementary School has been evacuated due to a bomb threat. The police are on the scene at this time. We have any and all updates as they become available.

Northwestern Elementary School PTA Spaghetti Dinner

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GOP Fears Vote Grab As Dems Surge Ahead In Wisconsin

Republicans are voicing fears that a Minnesota-style vote grab could be underway in Wisconsin following reports that the union-backed Democratic challenger to incumbent conservative Wisconsin Justice David Prosser has surged ahead in next-day vote counting.

Early morning vote tallies showed Prosser clinging to a razor-thin lead of 598 votes with 99 percent of the votes counted. But the counting of additional votes on Wednesday morning propelled challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg into the lead by 235 votes.

The high level of concern over possible vote fraud was reflected in a request made by Milwaukee Election Commissioner Robert Spindell, who is active in GOP politics, that police be dispatched to guard ballots and voting machines overnight. The extent to which ballots were guarded statewide remains unclear.

That reversal conjured unhappy memories for Republicans of the bitterly contested 2008 recount battle between incumbent GOP Sen. Norm Coleman and Democratic challenger Al Franken in Minnesota. Coleman had a 775 vote lead on Election Day. But as additional votes were counted in the days that followed, Franken surged to a 251 vote lead that he never relinquished despite a long legal battle over absentee ballots.

Already, both sides in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race are predicting a drawn out recount. Wall Street Journal election expert John Fund, author of Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy, tells Newsmax the concerns of a repeat of political intrigue in Wisconsin similar to the GOP experience in Minnesota are well founded, given the lax voter registration standards Wisconsin has enacted.

“Like Wisconsin,” Fund tells Newsmax, “Al Franken's race in Minnesota in 2008 featured a same-day voter law which allowed people to register and vote at the same time on Election Day -- an open, engraved invitation to fraud.

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Budget Games: 'I Don't Want To Pinpoint' Any Spending Cuts

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday he would not "pinpoint" any cuts that Democrats would be willing to make in federal spending, offering only broad figures on an overall reduction.

At Hoyer’s weekly Capitol Hill press briefing on Tuesday, CNSNews.com noted the Democrats’ criticism of the GOP’s proposed cuts and asked Hoyer, “Where specifically would Democrats cut spending? If these cuts that the Republicans are proposing are unacceptable, where specifically are Democrats willing to cut spending?”

Hoyer said, “In point of fact, when Vice President Biden came down – in fact Democrats had been working within the appropriations framework to respond exactly to that question.

When asked again for specifics on what Democrats were willing to cut, Hoyer criticized the Republicans for limiting cuts to non-defense discretionary spending, saying “everything” needed to be on the table.

The second-ranking House Democrat did not say, however, which parts of the rest of the federal budget – defense and entitlement spending – Democrats would consider cutting.

“We have in fact made some accommodations on cutting spending but I don’t want to pinpoint those until – if the deal is possible – that that deal is then struck,” said Hoyer.

“From my standpoint, obviously as I’ve told you, looking at the small sliver of the budget is not how you will get from where we are to where we need to be,” he said.

Thus far, neither House Democrats nor Senate Democrats have said where they would be willing to cut spending.

Both House and Senate Republicans have endorsed the House-passed H.R. 1, which would cut $61 billion over the remaining fiscal year but which died in the Senate despite receiving the vote of every Republican senator.

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Two Years Ago Today

Two years ago today the President of SAPOA was clearly supporting their candidate Muir Boda, (center). History repeats itself.

Boonies, Buy One Get One For A Penny

Late-Night Talks Yield No Results

Following a late-night budget meeting, President Obama, Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Reid all announce that while they made progress, there is no agreement yet to avoid federal shutdown.

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Radiation Protection Tablets Distributed In Delaware

MIDDLETOWN, Del. (AP) -- Emergency management officials in Delaware say about 1,500 doses of potassium iodide have been distributed to residents who live within 10 miles of the Salem/Hope Creek nuclear power plant in New Jersey.

The pills were distributed Wednesday at the volunteer fire department in Middletown. They can protect the thyroid gland from radioactive iodine, which a plant may release in an emergency.

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Downtown Plan Urges Conversion Of Vacant Office Space

Nonprofit issues call to action to strengthen the city center

Warning that downtown Baltimore is at a critical juncture, a plan to be released Thursday by the Downtown Partnership recommends that some vacant office space in the city center be converted to apartments.

"New uses must be found for older towers that no longer work as office space," the group says.

That is just one of several suggestions from the nonprofit, which seeks to promote and revitalize Baltimore's central business district. With the commercial vacancy rate downtown about 19 percent — and with plans for office districts on its periphery raising fears that even more commerce could be siphoned off — the Downtown Partnership's new strategic plan recommends several steps to keep downtown from stagnating further.

Among them: The city should create a Tax Increment Finance, or TIF, district in the oldest parts of downtown to pay for capital improvements and encourage new development.
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